ITT Europeans tell us shit we already know about changes most of us want because they don't understand gerrymandering and the electoral college
this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2025
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What they don't understand is why you don't rise up and set fire to a broken system as is tradition.
And don't start with that oppression shit, go read the history of every revolution ever. You just don't wanna.
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Are you implying all those things shared here are correct, well known, yet irrelevant because the political system itself grew irremediably broken?
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Your traffic laws are weird.
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Overtaking/passing on the right
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4 way stops and whoever comes first can go
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No strict right of way when coming from the right
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Right on red
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Grinding all traffic in all directions over multiple lanes to a stop when a school bus stops
At least the last one I can understand a little with the nearly non-existent pedestrian infrastructure.
Honestly right on red is so stupid. So many people don't even slow down and they just go. Sometimes I'll be waiting to turn right at red light and some dickhead in a behemoth truck behind me will start spamming their horn like they think I have the right away and can just mow down whichever pedestrians are in the crosswalk. I bike a lot and I have narrowly avoided being hit by a car turning right on red multiple times. One time I had a car graze my back tire which was really scary but fortunately I ended up okay.
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In foreign countries, the people don't always speak English or "American" and shouldn't be expected to bow down to you.
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That American exceptionalism is only describing the fact that America continues to have slaves when almost every other nation has banned it completely.
Some countries have only banned it on paper. Don't ask how rich countries in the middle east get their buildings built, for example.
And then there's always the loopholes that allow unscrupulous employers to pay employees less than minimum wage. Not quite slavery, but it's pretty damn close.
For example: My country has a scheme whereby some unemployed people have been forced to take on work in order to qualify for, get this: their unemployment benefits. The employer won't then take them on because then they'd have to pay them, and pay them minimum wage to boot, rather than get free workers from the government.
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Americans are some of the most unintelligent people on earth
I think humanity is a big dumb collective. Americans are just arrogant in our stupidity.
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Mom says I get to post the "shit on the US" thread tomorrow!
You should do this for other countries too. America isn't the only country with an idealised view of what other people think of them.
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Credit scores only exist in the US. Everywhere else just compares your income to your debt.
Edit: apparently there are several other countries with credit scoring systems. The more you know... The US system, at least, is still bullshit designed to stratify economic class not only individually but by gender and with generational impact.
What? We have credit scores in the UK. Used for getting mobile phone contracts, housing, bank accounts, credit cards, loans, etc.
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Drastically reduction of guns WILL save your kids lives at school. But not "muh outdated rights from centuries ago".
Btw I'm not against guns, military and officers should have "easy" access to them.
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MANY Americans aren't ready to hear these things. The rest of us are well-aware of them. We're glad that you're sharing your criticisms, and waiting for y'all to share with us how to implement your well-thought-out and practical, abiding solutions.
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America is the whole continent. You guys just fenced the worst part of it.
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